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From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: Move rth handling from ip_route_input_slow to helper
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:07:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56021764.1070701@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56020F74.8000605@gmail.com>

On 9/22/15 8:33 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Why pass loopback_dev instead of just passing the net pointer?  Seems
> like in the path below there are cases where you end up not needing to
> dereference it and it might be worth the effort to avoid dereferencing
> it if you don't need to.
>
> Same thing for nopolicy.  Why not just pass the in_dev pointer and
> handle getting the policy if you need it.

Sure, I was passing in what was needed but I get your point. If the 
cache version is valid it is an unnecessary dereference.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-23  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 22:55 [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Refactor ip_route_input_slow David Ahern
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 1/9] net: Remove martian_source_keep_err goto label David Ahern
2015-09-23  1:04   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-09-23  1:39     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 2/9] net: Remove e_inval label from ip_route_input_slow David Ahern
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 3/9] net: Remove e_nobufs " David Ahern
2015-09-23  2:15   ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-09-23  3:04     ` David Ahern
2015-09-24 10:53     ` David Laight
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: Move rth handling from ip_route_input_slow to helper David Ahern
2015-09-23  2:33   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-09-23  3:07     ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 5/9] net: Move martian_destination " David Ahern
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 6/9] net: Remove martian_source goto David Ahern
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: Remove martian_destination label David Ahern
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: Remove local_input label David Ahern
2015-09-22 22:55 ` [PATCH net-next 9/9] net: Remove no_route label David Ahern
2015-09-23  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Refactor ip_route_input_slow Alexander Duyck
2015-09-23 14:03   ` David Ahern
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-23 15:15 [PATCH net-next 0/9 v2] " David Ahern
2015-09-23 15:15 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: Move rth handling from ip_route_input_slow to helper David Ahern

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